Ruler · 1955 – 1994

Cyprien Ntaryamira

Lived 1955 – 1994; politician. President of Burundi (Burundi), 1994.

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Lived: 1955 – 1994; 39 years
Lines: 1; Burundi
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of Burundi

Burundi · the 7th of 13 dated reigns · 1966 – 2020

3 before

Melchior Ndadaye1993

François Ngeze1993

Sylvie Kinigi1993 – 1994

Cyprien Ntaryamira1994

Sylvestre Ntibantunganya1994 – 1996

Pierre Buyoya1996 – 2003

Domitien Ndayizeye2003 – 2005

3 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1994 · under a year · came to it aged 39

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; surface-to-air missile

He was killed on 6 April 1994 when the plane he was travelling in with Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down over Kigali.

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